CD – Familiar Faces in New Places – Alex Meixner

Alex’s 1996 solo album of all instrumental button box polkas and waltzes has a mix of straight-ahead styles and forays into polka fusions with swing, Latin and other world styles. In the words of Brave Combo’s Carl Finch ” Familiar Faces in New Places is quite honestly a mind-blowing feat with heavy emphasis on the musicality”. Nearly 25 years later, the evolutions of Alex’s polka interpretations heavily influenced by the roots of the music and creating new branches is seen inside of this work.